Jafza (Jebel Ali Free Zone) describes its company types and shareholder rules on its own site. This page reports those statements and no more.
Jafza's own statements on company types, shareholder rules and foreign ownership.
Jafza (Jebel Ali Free Zone) describes a Free Zone Establishment (FZE) as a single-shareholder limited liability company whose shareholder may be a person or a company, and a Free Zone Company (FZCo) as a multi-shareholder company with two to fifty shareholders.
Jafza's formation page lists further company types beyond FZE and FZCo, namely a public listed company, a branch of a company and an offshore company, and states that Jafza follows Dubai Economy directives and inherits the activity list published by the DED.
Jafza states that there are no foreign ownership restrictions for companies formed in its free zone, which is governed by an independent free zone authority that issues operating licences.
Company formation in Dubai with Jafza — Jebel Ali Free Zone Authority (Jafza)
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Jafza (Jebel Ali Free Zone) describes a Free Zone Establishment (FZE) as a single-shareholder limited liability company whose shareholder may be a person or a company, and a Free Zone Company (FZCo) as a multi-shareholder company with two to fifty shareholders.
Jafza states that there are no foreign ownership restrictions for companies formed in its free zone, which is governed by an independent free zone authority that issues operating licences.
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